what was darsena like before you redesigned it? - this is porta romana.sically 200 000 m2 of nearly abandoned rail yard. from the look of it, you might think i'm lost in some dodgy suburb far from the city centre. but nope, not at all. the largest of milan's 7 abandoned rail yards, it now sits between two bustling neighborhoods. these railyards once separated the city from its industrial zone. but over the past decades, milan has sprawled so drastically that it's grown far beyond this former frontier. piero is the city's chief resilience officer and he sees these derelict places as blank slates as unique opportunities to create something new and better. then you have the prada foundation with its big fancy building. it feels like... i see something like that and i wonder if they're coming. is this going to be a fancy development with huge companies moving in? okay. - the city has convinced the national railway company to put this land to better use, to give it a new lease on life. so they've established a master plan. a third of the land will be devoted t